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misa77: an LZ codec built for read-heavy workloads, decoding 2x faster than LZ4
misa77 is a new open-source, LZ-family compression codec aimed squarely at write-once, read-many workloads, where files are compressed once but decoded repeated
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 goes live — but the announcement is all headline
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, the newest model in its Kimi K-series line. The source is a bare launch page: it confirms the model is available but carries n
OnePlus reportedly halts US and Europe operations — but the source is an empty forum post
The only material provided is a headline claiming OnePlus has stopped operating in the United States and Europe, posted to OnePlus's own community forum. No art
Puter Labs runs the real Firefox engine entirely in a browser tab via WebAssembly
Puter Labs has compiled Mozilla's Gecko engine to WebAssembly, letting the genuine Firefox interface render and run inside an ordinary browser tab with no local
Rebuilding a native <button> from scratch: a lesson in why you shouldn't
Web accessibility advice usually starts with two rules: don't use ARIA if you can avoid it, and always prefer a native HTML element over a hand-rolled one. This
Regular sleep timing beats hours slept as a predictor of mortality risk
A 2023 study published in the journal SLEEP challenges the common focus on nightly sleep duration, finding that how consistent your sleep-wake schedule is from
SpaceX bonds slide ~10% below issue price, nearing junk status
SpaceX debt is trading around 10% under its issue price and is moving toward a junk-bond (sub-investment-grade) rating, according to the Financial Times headlin
SQLite's unsafe defaults, and the case for Rust-style editions
SQLite is arguably the default choice for local data storage — an RDBMS shipped as a library rather than a separate process — but its out-of-the-box behavior un
Two Sigma's David Siegel: Open-source AI needs public funding before the field closes
David Siegel—co-founder of Two Sigma and chairman of the Siegel Family Endowment—recounts how Richard Stallman spent two years in the 1980s convincing him that
Why 'just schedule it smarter' breaks down when you don't own the control loop
System design has a habit of hiding complexity behind problems that look trivial. The author walks through job queues — systems for submitting, scheduling, and
xAI open-sources Grok Build, its Rust-based terminal coding agent
xAI has published the Rust source for Grok Build, a full-screen terminal UI coding agent that reads a codebase, edits files, runs shell commands, searches the w
A developer's candid account of depression, burnout, and learning to communicate
In a raw personal essay, a junior systems engineer traces how a persistent inability to stay motivated followed him from internships into two jobs that both end